Text-to-Speech
Transformers
Safetensors
Qwen3-TTS
English
text-generation
tts
prompttts
qwen3-tts
voice-design
vocence
Instructions to use michael-chan-000/tts-v21 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
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How to use michael-chan-000/tts-v21 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-to-speech", model="michael-chan-000/tts-v21")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("michael-chan-000/tts-v21", dtype="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
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The Vocence Chutes wrapper instantiates ``Miner`` with the on-disk path of the HF
snapshot and then drives it through the contract:
Miner(path_hf_repo: Path)
warmup() -> None
generate_wav(instruction: str, text: str) -> tuple[np.ndarray, int]
All weights, the audio codec, and the tokenizer ship together in the snapshot —
nothing is fetched at runtime.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import dataclasses
import re
import threading
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
import numpy as np
_REPO_REQUIRED_FILE = "config.json"
_RUNTIME_CONFIG_FILE = "vocence_config.yaml"
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Instruction rewrite (tag -> natural-language preamble) #
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
#
# Validators may send instructions in the legacy pipe-tag form, e.g.
# ``| gender: male | pitch: mid | accent: uk |``. The base voice_design
# checkpoint was conditioned on natural-language descriptions, so we paraphrase
# the tags into a short imperative preamble and *prepend* it to whatever the
# caller sent. Free-form prompts (no ``| key: value |`` pairs) pass through
# unchanged because ``_parse_instruction`` returns ``{}`` for them.
# One ``| key: value |`` pair. Value runs until the next ``|`` or end-of-string;
# the lookahead keeps the trailing ``|`` available for the next iteration.
_INSTRUCTION_TAG_RE = re.compile(
r"\|\s*([A-Za-z_]+)\s*:\s*([^|]+?)\s*(?=\||$)"
)
_GENDER_PHRASE = {
"male": "male", "female": "female", "neutral": "gender-neutral",
}
_PITCH_PHRASE = {
"low": "deep low-pitched voice", "mid": "medium natural pitch", "high": "high-pitched voice",
}
_SPEED_PHRASE = {
"slow": "slow deliberate pace", "normal": "natural conversational pace", "fast": "brisk fast pace",
}
_AGE_PHRASE = {
"child": "child", "young_adult": "young adult", "adult": "adult", "senior": "elderly senior",
}
_EMOTION_PHRASE = {
"neutral": "neutral composed delivery",
"happy": "cheerful happy upbeat warm",
"sad": "sorrowful sad subdued downcast",
"angry": "firm angry forceful assertive tense",
"calm": "calm relaxed measured peaceful unhurried",
"excited": "excited enthusiastic energetic lively",
"serious": "serious grave deliberate weighty",
"fearful": "nervous fearful hesitant trembling",
}
_TONE_PHRASE = {
"warm": "warm", "cold": "cold detached", "friendly": "friendly",
"formal": "formal", "casual": "casual", "authoritative": "authoritative commanding",
}
_ACCENT_PHRASE = {
"us": "standard American English accent with rhotic r sounds",
"uk": "standard British English accent with non-rhotic received pronunciation",
"au": "Australian English accent",
"in": "Indian English accent",
"neutral": "neutral international English accent",
"other": "non-native English accent",
}
def _parse_instruction(instruction: str) -> dict[str, str]:
"""Parse a pipe-tag instruction (``| key: value | ...``) into a flat dict.
Keys are lowercased; values are lowercased and stripped. Returns ``{}``
for free-form natural-language prompts (no tag pairs found), which
signals ``_enhance_instruction`` to pass them through unchanged. Unknown
or out-of-vocabulary values quietly drop out at preamble-build time
because the phrase tables only contain mappings we trust to be in the
base model's training distribution.
"""
if not instruction or "|" not in instruction:
return {}
out: dict[str, str] = {}
for m in _INSTRUCTION_TAG_RE.finditer(instruction):
key = m.group(1).strip().lower()
val = m.group(2).strip().lower()
if key and val:
out[key] = val
return out
def _build_natural_preamble(parsed: dict[str, str]) -> str:
gender = _GENDER_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("gender", ""), "")
age = _AGE_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("age_group", ""), "")
pitch = _PITCH_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("pitch", ""), "")
speed = _SPEED_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("speed", ""), "")
emotion = _EMOTION_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("emotion", ""), "")
tone = _TONE_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("tone", ""), "")
accent = _ACCENT_PHRASE.get(parsed.get("accent", ""), "")
parts: list[str] = []
# Gender-first to avoid timbre drift on emotion-heavy prompts
identity = " ".join(p for p in [gender, age] if p)
if identity:
parts.append(f"a {identity} voice")
if emotion:
parts.append(emotion)
if accent:
parts.append(f"speaking with a {accent}")
if pitch:
parts.append(pitch)
if speed:
parts.append(speed)
if tone:
parts.append(f"{tone} tone")
if not parts:
return ""
preamble = "Speak as " + ", ".join(parts) + "."
return preamble + " Use natural human prosody with realistic breath placement and varied intonation."
def _enhance_instruction(instruction: str) -> str:
"""Prepend a natural-language preamble derived from any pipe tags.
Pass-through when the input has no parseable tags or none of them map
to a known phrase (so the preamble would be empty). Always keeps the
original instruction at the end so the caller's free-form instructions
still influence the model.
"""
parsed = _parse_instruction(instruction)
if not parsed:
return instruction
preamble = _build_natural_preamble(parsed)
if not preamble:
return instruction
return f"{preamble} {instruction}"
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Text normalization #
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
_NUM_WORDS = {
"0": "zero", "1": "one", "2": "two", "3": "three", "4": "four",
"5": "five", "6": "six", "7": "seven", "8": "eight", "9": "nine",
"10": "ten", "11": "eleven", "12": "twelve", "13": "thirteen",
"14": "fourteen", "15": "fifteen", "16": "sixteen", "17": "seventeen",
"18": "eighteen", "19": "nineteen", "20": "twenty", "30": "thirty",
"40": "forty", "50": "fifty", "60": "sixty", "70": "seventy",
"80": "eighty", "90": "ninety", "100": "one hundred",
}
_ABBREV = {
"Mr.": "Mister", "Mrs.": "Missus", "Dr.": "Doctor", "St.": "Saint",
"etc.": "et cetera", "vs.": "versus", "approx.": "approximately",
"dept.": "department", "govt.": "government", "mgr.": "manager",
}
# Pre-compiled at module load so we don't recompile on every call.
_DOLLAR_RE = re.compile(r"\$(\d+)")
_POUND_RE = re.compile(r"£(\d+)")
_EURO_RE = re.compile(r"€(\d+)")
_SMALL_INT_RE = re.compile(r"\b(\d{1,2})\b")
_CONJ_RE = re.compile(
r"(?<!\,)\s+(but|however|although|though|yet)\s+",
flags=re.IGNORECASE,
)
def _normalize_text_for_tts(text: str) -> str:
"""Rewrite a transcript so the talker emits cleaner, more prosodic speech.
Concretely: expand a small list of common abbreviations, turn currency-
prefixed integers into spelled-out phrases (``$5`` -> ``five dollars``),
spell out 1-2 digit standalone integers, and insert a comma before
coordinating conjunctions in long sentences so the model hears a beat
where humans naturally take one. Larger numbers, decimals, and unknown
abbreviations pass through unchanged.
"""
# Expand known abbreviations
for abbr, expansion in _ABBREV.items():
text = text.replace(abbr, expansion)
# Expand $N / £N / €N → "N dollars/pounds/euros"
text = _DOLLAR_RE.sub(
lambda m: f"{_NUM_WORDS.get(m.group(1), m.group(1))} dollars", text
)
text = _POUND_RE.sub(
lambda m: f"{_NUM_WORDS.get(m.group(1), m.group(1))} pounds", text
)
text = _EURO_RE.sub(
lambda m: f"{_NUM_WORDS.get(m.group(1), m.group(1))} euros", text
)
# Expand standalone small integers (not part of larger numbers)
text = _SMALL_INT_RE.sub(
lambda m: _NUM_WORDS.get(m.group(1), m.group(1)),
text,
)
# Add comma pause before coordinating conjunctions in long sentences
text = _CONJ_RE.sub(r", \1 ", text)
return text.strip()
@dataclasses.dataclass
class _RuntimeOpts:
"""Subset of vocence_config.yaml that the engine actually consumes."""
language: str = "English"
sample_rate: int = 24000
max_instruction_chars: int = 600
max_text_chars: int = 2000
device_pref: str = "cuda"
dtype_pref: str = "bfloat16"
flash_attention_2: bool = False
@classmethod
def from_repo(cls, repo: Path) -> "_RuntimeOpts":
cfg_path = repo / _RUNTIME_CONFIG_FILE
if not cfg_path.is_file():
return cls()
from yaml import safe_load
with cfg_path.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
data = safe_load(fh) or {}
runtime = data.get("runtime") or {}
generation = data.get("generation") or {}
limits = data.get("limits") or {}
return cls(
language=str(limits.get("default_language") or runtime.get("default_language") or "English"),
sample_rate=int(generation.get("sample_rate", 24000)),
max_instruction_chars=int(limits.get("max_instruction_chars", 600)),
max_text_chars=int(limits.get("max_text_chars", 2000)),
device_pref=str(runtime.get("device_preference", "cuda")).lower(),
dtype_pref=str(runtime.get("dtype", "bfloat16")).lower(),
flash_attention_2=bool(runtime.get("use_flash_attention_2", False)),
)
class Miner:
"""Loads merged Qwen3-TTS weights from the snapshot and serves the Vocence API."""
WARMUP_BUDGET_S = 180.0
def __init__(self, path_hf_repo: Path) -> None:
self.repo = Path(path_hf_repo).resolve()
if not (self.repo / _REPO_REQUIRED_FILE).is_file():
raise FileNotFoundError(
f"Snapshot incomplete: {self.repo / _REPO_REQUIRED_FILE} not found"
)
self.opts = _RuntimeOpts.from_repo(self.repo)
self.model = self._build_model()
def __repr__(self) -> str:
return f"<Miner repo={self.repo.name} language={self.opts.language!r}>"
# ------------------------------------------------------------------ #
# Vocence contract #
# ------------------------------------------------------------------ #
def warmup(self) -> None:
outcome: dict[str, Any] = {"ok": False, "err": None}
def _heat() -> None:
try:
self.generate_wav(instruction="Calm neutral delivery.", text="Warmup.")
outcome["ok"] = True
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 — surface to host
outcome["err"] = repr(exc)
worker = threading.Thread(target=_heat, daemon=True)
worker.start()
worker.join(timeout=self.WARMUP_BUDGET_S)
if not outcome["ok"]:
raise RuntimeError(f"Miner warmup did not complete: {outcome['err'] or 'timeout'}")
def generate_wav(self, instruction: str, text: str) -> tuple[np.ndarray, int]:
# Cap raw inputs first so an oversized payload never reaches the
# rewriter (which would just throw away the surplus anyway).
prompt = self._truncate(instruction, self.opts.max_instruction_chars)
body = self._truncate(text, self.opts.max_text_chars)
# Tag-form instructions get a natural-language preamble prepended;
# already-natural instructions pass through untouched.
prompt = _enhance_instruction(prompt)
# Spell out numbers/currency, expand a few abbreviations, and add
# a beat before coordinating conjunctions in long sentences.
body = _normalize_text_for_tts(body)
# The preamble + abbreviation/number expansion can lengthen the
# strings; re-clip to the same limits so we honour the contract
# advertised in vocence_config.yaml's ``limits`` block.
prompt = self._truncate(prompt, self.opts.max_instruction_chars)
body = self._truncate(body, self.opts.max_text_chars)
wavs, sample_rate = self.model.generate_voice_design(
text=body,
instruct=prompt,
language=self.opts.language,
)
if not wavs or wavs[0] is None:
raise ValueError("Qwen3-TTS returned no audio")
wave = self._coerce_mono_float32(wavs[0])
return wave, int(sample_rate)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------ #
# Internal #
# ------------------------------------------------------------------ #
@staticmethod
def _truncate(value: str, limit: int) -> str:
return value[:limit] if limit and limit > 0 else value
@staticmethod
def _coerce_mono_float32(arr: Any) -> np.ndarray:
wave = np.asarray(arr, dtype=np.float32)
if wave.ndim > 1:
wave = wave.mean(axis=1)
return wave
def _build_model(self):
import torch
from qwen_tts import Qwen3TTSModel
cuda_available = bool(torch.cuda.is_available())
device_map = "cuda:0" if (self.opts.device_pref == "cuda" and cuda_available) else "cpu"
torch_dtype = (
torch.bfloat16
if (self.opts.dtype_pref == "bfloat16" and cuda_available)
else torch.float32
)
attempt_order = ("flash_attention_2", "sdpa") if self.opts.flash_attention_2 else ("sdpa",)
last_error: BaseException | None = None
for attn in attempt_order:
try:
model = Qwen3TTSModel.from_pretrained(
pretrained_model_name_or_path=str(self.repo),
device_map=device_map,
dtype=torch_dtype,
attn_implementation=attn,
)
print(
f"[Miner] Qwen3-TTS ready on {device_map} "
f"(dtype={self.opts.dtype_pref}, attn={attn})"
)
return model
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 — try next attn variant
last_error = exc
raise RuntimeError(f"Qwen3-TTS failed to load: {last_error!r}")
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